Architect Quote by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Download Open image “The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.” — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architect Architecture Drawing Inspirational Learning Music
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Being an architect is like playing piano, you learn to play to admire how well the other guys play piano. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you make a… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper. — Eduardo Souto de Moura Copy Share Image
The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the earth through… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Apollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. Of him it is related that he said… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect;… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond,… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment. — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image